Linux Client alpha 1.13.0.8 available

Download from: http://secondlife.com/community/linux-alpha.php

The main Linux-specific changes are:
* Preferences/logs/etc now live in ~/.secondlife by default
* New README-linux.txt
* Automated crash reporter (see README to activate)
* Fine-grained GL extension disabling for advanced troubleshooters (see README)

The Linux client's automatic crash logger currently only runs if you select 'Always send' for 'Crash reports' in the 'General' tab of the preferences window. We encourage you to select this option to help us improve the quality of the Second Life Linux client.

As I mentioned in the quick release announcement on the test-grid thread, the thing that impresses me most here is that the Linux-Client-specific fixes/features were woven into the general release notice by LindenLabs, rather than tacked on the bottom. Alpha designation or not, that says first-class citizen client rather strongly to me

Tofu, is there a way to set the cache to be elsewhere than ~/.secondlife/cache ??

~/.kde/tmp-LaeMi/SLcache is where I would like the option to put it. (that soft-links into /tmp on a spare HDD drive that is too old to be trusted with critical data but is fine for cache files, rather than fill my /home directory which I keep on a 4.2G partition for DVD-dumping as backup.)

Gnome users will have their own distinct prefs too, I'm sure.


I made a hack to do this by adding the line:

mkdir /tmp/kde-[my_RL_login]/SLcache

before the line:

## Nothing worth editing below this line.

(to make sure the folder is there any time I start SL after a reboot)

and manually making ~/.secondlife/cache a softlink to this.

But if there is an environment variable to do this it would be even better.

Not as such - I briefly considered it, but figured that anyone who knows enough to care, also knows how to make a simple symlink like you do.